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PIA22952: Inspecting Instrument Deployment

An engineer watches as a test version of NASA's Mars InSight lander grasps a model of the spacecraft's seismometer. This work was done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Target Name:	Mars
Mission:	InSight
Spacecraft:	InSight Mars Lander
Product Size:	6000 x 4000 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA22952.tif (67.01 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA22952.jpg (3.938 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Engineer Marleen Sundgaard watches as a test version of NASA's Mars InSight lander grasps a model of the spacecraft's seismometer. This work was done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The InSight spacecraft was built and tested by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, Colorado.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/insight.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPGP

Image Addition Date:

2018-12-18